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Re: XML declaration in DTD System ID? ...

From: Russell Potter <russ.potter@-------.--->
To: NULL
Date: 7/8/2009 12:46:00 AM
Martin,

> http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-TextDecl says
>   "External parsed entities SHOULD each begin with a text declaration."
> so it says "should" and it says "text declaration", not "XML 
> declaration". That way it is possible to not have a text declaration as 
> long as the encoding is UTF-8 or UTF-16 and the version is 1.0 I think.

Thanks for that very helpful info ... :-)

If, however, the entity *didn't* begin with an XML declaration,
how would a processor figure out whether the encoding was UTF-8
or UTF-16? Some type of heuristic algorithm?

Russell




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